Moored current and temperature measurements in the Faroe Bank Channel overflow region, June 2012-June 2013

This data set includes measurements from moored instruments from the Faroe Bank Channel overflow region in the period between 28 May 2012 and 5 June 2013. The data set was collected under the project entitled "Faroe Bank Channel Overflow: Dynamics and Mixing Research", with an objective to describe the structure and variability of the dense oceanic overflow plume from the Faroe Bank Channel on daily to seasonal timescales. Mooring arrays were deployed in two sections: located 25 km downstream of the main sill, in the channel that geographically confines the overflow plume at both edges (section C), and 60 km further downstream, over the slope (section S). The measurements delivered with this data set include hourly-averaged data gridded on 5-m vertical separation, after accounting for mooring knock downs using a mooring dynamics model. Complete set of mooring drawings and detailed description can be found in the cruise report (Fer et al. 2016, PDF provided). The article by Ullgren et al. (2016) gives further details on processing of the data set and presents the data set.

(Table 2) U-channel paleomagnetic record of ODP Site 178-1098

Thick Holocene sedimentary sections (>45 m) cored in the Palmer Deep by the United States Antarctic Program (USAP) and during Ocean Drilling Program (ODP) Leg 178 provide the first opportunity to examine past geomagnetic field behavior at high southern latitudes. After removal of a low-coercivity drilling overprint the sediments display a stable, single-component remanent magnetization. Two short cores that recovered the uppermost 2.6 m of sediment have inclinations that fluctuate about the present day inclination (-57°) measured at Faraday Station, and several features with wavelengths of 10 to 20 cm appear to be correlative. However, shipboard measurements of inclination fluctuations on split-core samples from three holes drilled at ODP Site 1098 do not correlate well with each other, even though the intensity and susceptibility data correlate very well and the overall mean inclination for cores from each hole is consistent with the expected geocentric axial dipole (GAD) inclination. The correlation is improved dramatically by using inclinations measured on u-channels taken from the pristine center of a split core. Consequently, the anomalous directions and the resulting poor between-hole correlation of inclinations obtained from shipboard data can be attributed to coring-induced deformation, which is common on the outer edge of ODP piston cores, and/or measurement artifacts in the split-core data. Our preferred inclination record is thus derived from u-channel results. The upper ~25 m represents continuous sedimentation over the past 9000 yr, with an average sedimentation rate exceeding 250 cm/kyr (0.25 cm/yr). Given that remanence measurements on u-channels average over an interval <7 cm long, we obtained independent measurements of the paleo-geomagnetic field that average over only ~30 yr. This high-resolution record is characterized by an inclination that fluctuates within +/-15° of the current GAD inclination.